The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-04-08

covered with Chinese placards Offering q
reward Of 5000 for the head OF King Kala-
kua. The Chinese are mad because a high
Official accepted $9O,OO0 bribe and then
failed to carry out his agreement.
Monday, April 4.
Two trains collided near Springfield, Ont, ,
killing two men.
Hartford painters have struck for nine
hours and g.. 81 per day.
Shea, tried at Greenfield, Mass, for the
murder Of Lawler. was acquitted.
Herr Krupp is going to start first class
tally newspaper at Essen for the use OF his
20oO) workmen.
The Pacific coast steamer Mexico. was
wrecked off vancouvers island but all
hands were saved.
Frank w. Foster, ex-treasurer Of Green
Geld, Mass, has been sentenced to five ears
in the house Of correction
The message Of President Diaz to the
Mexican congress is pronounced satisfactory
to banking and financial interests, and is
cordial in its tone toward the United States.
1t is said that Jay Gould will build
town like Pullman in the suburbs of st.
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machine shops there, in order to head of
labor troubles.
The fine Roman ampitheater at Pola, in
Austria, on the Adriatic, suddenly col
lapsed and fell into an immense chasm
which opened on the site. From this chasm
vapors are emitted.
Fire at Wakefield, Mass. destroyed
house owned by Joshua Whittemors and
occupied by H. P. CrowelL House and
contents total loss, amounting to $4,000;
partially insurd.
DR.. James Hodges, who was convicted OF
exploding bomb in the Grand opera on
Feb. 9, during Patti concert, has been
sentenced at San Francisco to two years.
imprisonment in San Quinten.
Tuesday, April 5.
Tax Collector Ward of Canton has paid
in the balance due the town.
The painters of New York have pledged
themselves not to strike for year.
Grave charges are made against the
keeper OF the almshouse at Prescott. Mass
Twenty-four buildings in Clarkesville,
Tenn, have been burned. The loss is put
at $3.50
The Washington residence OF Senator
Blair was damaged by fire and water to the
extent of $4,000.
A deal Of thsiHaverhill 8 Lawrence and
ConcorI railroads with view to Boston
terminus is talked Of.
The Maine board Of medical censors holds
the registration bill to be law, notwith-
standing the governors veto
The carpenters and planning mill men of
Cincinnati and neighboring towns have
struck for nine hours at % cents an hour.
A decision adverse to the Bell Telephone
company was rendered by Judge Colt in
the United States circuit court at Boston.
The centennial Of Columbia college will
be observed with imposing ceremonies on
April Ii. Many prominent men will take
part.
Representatives of foreign holders OF Vir-
ginia bonds are on their way across the
ocean to consult with the Virginia ]egsla-
lature.
The New York Daily Commercial Bulle-
tin estimates the fire losses in the United
States and Canada in March at $40, ,45o,0oO
or about s., $1,000 above the March average
for the asst ten or twelve years.
Wednesday, April 9
The Beecher memorial fund now amounts
to 81, 600.
Richmond, Va, laid the corner stone of
new city hall.
The knights Of Labor ticket made a
clean sweep at Dubuque, Iowa.
The Buckeye Bridge and Boiler works of
Cleveland made an assignment.
An unknown man was killed by Boston
& Maine train in Charlestown, Mass
Wisconsin women In large numbers
offered their ballots at the election; test
case to be made.
Arrangements have been made at Bosto
for fair in the fall in aid of free homs
for Protestant shop girls.
Washington gossip has it that Carl
Schurz is to be the Republican member OF
the Pacific railroad commission.
The Daily house and several adjoining
at Trenton were badly damaged
BY fire. Loss, SIS, 900; insured
Thirty CATTLE suspected of being tainted
with..pleuro-pneumonia, have been put un-
Ter quarantine in New Bedford.
Manager j. H. Holiday of the Holiday
ninstrels was seriously injured in rail-
'oad accident at Junction City, Kan
The litigation over the will OF Hiram
Barker. of Pennington, N. H., has been be-
,un. An estate of $75O, 900 is involved
An unknown man was killed by an ex-
'ress train while walking on the Boston g.
Albany railroad track near Russell, Mass.
Farwell & Co., shoe manufacturers.
)anvers, Mass have accepted the price
lst of the Lasters' union and the strike is
ndei
The Colorado assembly has passed bill
rohibiting irrigating companies from
harging farmers roy atty for using water
rom their canals
Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway,
'ho has undergone q dangerous but success
III operation, is sojournlng at Amsterdam
or recuperation.
BY the explosion Of heat of steel at the
thompson steel works at Braddock, Penn,
wo men were probably fatally and three
theirs seriously injured.
The, carpenters strike at Cincinnati does
Of give promise of being q serious affair
here is the b. st of feeling on the part Of
9th employers and employees.
President McCosh declares that since he
bolished secret societies at Princeton there
as been better order, less drinking and
IS opposition to the faculty.